Trade Trade transitive verb To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.

They traded the persons of men.

Ezek. xxvii. 13.

To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches.

Cooper.

Trade Trade obsolete imperfect of Tread .

Trade name Trade name 1. (a) The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts. (b) An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article to distinguish it as produced or sold by him.

2. The name or style under which a concern or firm does business. This name becomes a part of the good will of a business; it is not protected by the registration acts, but a qualified common-law protection against its misuse exists, analogous to that existing in the case of trade-marks.

Trade-mark Trade"-mark` noun A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.

Traded Trad"ed adjective Professional; practiced. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Tradeful Trade"ful adjective Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. Spenser.

Tradeless Trade"less adjective Having no trade or traffic. Young.

Trader Trad"er noun 1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader .

2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.

trades union, Trade union trades" un`ion, Trade" un`ion An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.

Trades-unionist, Trade-unionist Trades"-un`ion·ist, Trade"-un`ion·ist noun A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.

Tradescantia Trad`es·can"ti·a noun (Botany) A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

Tradesfolk Trades"folk` noun People employed in trade; tradesmen. [ R.] Swift.

Tradesman Trades"man noun ; plural Tradesmen 1. One who trades; a shopkeeper.

2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. [ U. S.] Burrill.

Tradespeople Trades"peo`ple noun People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

Tradeswoman Trades"wom`an noun ; plural Tradeswomen A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

Trading Trad"ing adjective 1. Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

2. Frequented by traders. [ R.] "They on the trading flood." Milton.

3. Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

Tradition Tra·di"tion noun [ Middle English tradicioun , Latin traditio , from tradere to give up, transmit. See Treason , Traitor .] 1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone.

2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.

3. Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.

Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect?

Shak.

Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.

Longfellow.

4. (Theol.) (a) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition , which ye have delivered.

Mark vii. 13.

(b) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.

Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.

2 Thess. ii. 15.

Tradition Sunday (Eccl.) , Palm Sunday; -- so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.

Tradition Tra·di"tion transitive verb To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. [ Obsolete]

The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

Fuller.

Traditional Tra·di"tion·al adjective [ Confer French traditionnel , Late Latin traditionalis .] 1. Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.

2. Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. [ R.] Shak.

Traditionalism Tra·di"tion·al·ism noun A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.

Traditionalist Tra·di"tion·al·ist noun An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.

Traditionally Tra·di"tion·al·ly adverb In a traditional manner.

Traditionarily Tra·di"tion·a·ri·ly adverb By tradition.

Traditionary Tra·di"tion·a·ry adjective Traditional.

The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations.

Buckminster.

Traditionary Tra·di"tion·a·ry noun ; plural Traditionaries [ Confer French traditionnare .] One, among the Jews, who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them.

Traditioner, Traditionist Tra·di"tion·er, Tra·di"tion·ist noun [ Confer French traditionniste .] One who adheres to tradition.

Traditive Trad"i·tive adjective [ Latin tradere , traditum , to transmit, give up: confer French traditif .] Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional. [ R.] Jer. Taylor.

Suppose we on things traditive divide.

Dryden.

Traditor Trad"i·tor noun [ Latin , from tradere , traditum . See Traitor .] (Eccl. Hist.) A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. Milner.

Traduce Tra·duce" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Traduced ; present participle & verbal noun Traducing .] [ Latin traducere , traductum , to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: confer French traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, from Latin traducere. See Duke .] 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [ Obsolete] Glanvill.

2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [ Obsolete] Golden Boke.

3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [ Obsolete]

From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth.

Sir M. Hale.

4. To draw away; to seduce. [ Obsolete]

I can forget the weakness
Of the traduced soldiers.

Beau. & Fl.

5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.

The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [ prayers], to bring them into contempt.

Hooker.

He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel.

Dryden.

Syn. -- To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.

Traducement Tra·duce"ment noun The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. [ R.] Shak.

Traducent Tra·du"cent adjective [ Latin traducens , present participle of traducere . See Traduce .] Slanderous. [ R.] Entick.

Traducer Tra·du"cer noun 1. One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. Bp. Hall.

2. One who derives or deduces. [ Obsolete] Fuller.

Traducian Tra·du"cian noun A believer in traducianism.

Traducianism Tra·du"cian·ism noun (Theol.) The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; - - opposed to creationism , and infusionism .

Traducible Tra·du"ci·ble adjective 1. Capable of being derived or propagated. [ Obsolete] Sir M. Hale.

2. Capable of being traduced or calumniated. [ R.]

Traducingly Tra·du"cing·ly adverb In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.

Traduct Tra·duct" transitive verb [ Latin traducere , traductum . See Traduce.] To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer. [ Obsolete] Fotherby.

Traduct Tra·duct" noun That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation. [ Obsolete] Howell.

Traduction Tra·duc"tion noun [ Latin traductio a transferring: confer French traduction translation. See Traduce .] 1. Transmission from one to another. [ Obsolete]

Traditional communication and traduction of truths.

Sir M. Hale.

2. Translation from one language to another. [ Obsolete]

3. Derivation by descent; propagation. [ R.]

If by traduction came thy mind,
Our wonder is the less to find
A soul so charming from a stock so good.

Dryden.

4. The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [ R.] "The traduction of brutes." Sir M. Hale.

5. Transition. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

6. (Logic) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to. Jevons.

Traductive Tra·duc"tive adjective Capable of being deduced; derivable. [ R.] Bp. Warburton.

Traffic Traf"fic intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Trafficked ; present participle & verbal noun Trafficking .] [ French trafiquer ; confer Italian trafficare , Spanish traficar , trafagar , Portuguese traficar , trafegar , trafeguear , Late Latin traficare ; of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin trans across, over + -ficare to make (see -fy , and confer German übermachen to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or confer Portuguese trasfegar to pour out from one vessel into another, OPg. also, to traffic, perhaps from (assumed) Late Latin vicare to exchange, from Latin vicis change (cf. Vicar ).] 1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

Traffic Traf"fic transitive verb To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Traffic Traf"fic noun [ Confer French trafic , Italian traffico , Spanish tráfico , tráfago , Portuguese tráfego , Late Latin traficum , trafica . See Traffic , v. ] 1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.

A merchant of great traffic through the world.

Shak.

The traffic in honors, places, and pardons.

Macaulay.

» This word, like trade , comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.

2. Commodities of the market. [ R.]

You 'll see a draggled damsel
From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.

Gay.

3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Traffic return , a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line. -- Traffic taker , a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.

Traffic mile Traf"fic mile (Railroad Accounting) Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage.

Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse for the erroneous practice of adding together two things (ton miles and passenger miles) which, being of different kinds, cannot properly be added.

Hadley.

Trafficable Traf"fic·a·ble adjective Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. [ Obsolete] Bp. Hall.

Trafficker Traf"fick·er noun One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

Trafficless Traf"fic·less adjective Destitute of traffic, or trade.

Tragacanth Trag"a·canth noun [ Latin tragacanthum tragacanth, tragacantha the plant producing tragacanth, Greek ... ... a he-goat + ... a thorn: confer French tragacanthe .] A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub ( Astragalus gummifer ) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth .

Tragedian Tra·ge"di·an noun [ Confer French tragédien .]

1. A writer of tragedy.

Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught.

Milton.

2. An actor or player in tragedy. Shak.

Tragédienne Tra`gé`dienne" noun [ French] A woman who plays in tragedy.

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